Herefordshire

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County of Herefordshire

Geography
Status:	Ceremonial County; Unitary District
Region:	West Midlands
Area: - Total - District	Ranked 26th 2,180 km² Ranked 3rd
Admin HQ:	Hereford
	GB-HEF
ONS code:	00GA
NUTS 3:	UKG11
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - District	Ranked 45th 176,471 81 / km² Ranked 83rd
Ethnicity:	99.1% White
Politics
Herefordshire Council http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/
Executive:	Labour & Liberal Democrat & Independents
MPs:	Paul Keetch, Bill Wiggin

Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders the counties of Shropshire in the north, Worcestershire in the east, Gloucestershire in the south east and the Welsh preserved county counties of Gwent in the south west and Powys in the west.

The county had eleven traditional hundredss, of Broxash, Ewyas-Lacy, Greytree, Grimsworth, Huntingdon, Radlow, Stretford, Webtree, Wigmore, Wolphy, and Wormelow.

In 1974 it was administratively merged with the neighbouring Worcestershire to form the short-lived Hereford and Worcester. Within this, Herefordshire territory was covered by the districts of South Herefordshire, Hereford, and part of Malvern Hills and Leominster districts.

On April 1, 1998 it was split out again, in the form of a unitary authority, with broadly the same borders as before.

Herefordshire is a very rural county best known for its fruit growing and cider production in particular. When Celia Fiennes visited Herefordshire in 1696 she saw a countryside in which apple and pear trees were growing everywhere 'even in their corn fields and hedgerows'. Modern agriculture has put pressure on the ancient orchards in the county but many of them still survive today.

Cities, Towns and villages

Adforton
Bacton, Blackwardine, Bromyard
Edvin Loach, Eye
Goodrich
Hereford, Hoarwithy, Huntington
Kilpeck, Kington, Kingstone
Ledbury, Leominster
Mansel Lacy, Marden, Marston, Marston Stannett, Marstow
Pembridge
Ross-on-Wye
Thornbury
Welsh Bicknor, Whitbourne, Whitchurch

Places of interest

United Kingdom | England | Ceremonial counties of England

Districts of England - West Midlands
Birmingham \| Bridgnorth \| Bromsgrove \| Cannock Chase \| Coventry \| Dudley \| East Staffordshire \| Herefordshire \| Lichfield \| Malvern Hills \| Newcastle-under-Lyme \| North Shropshire \| North Warwickshire \| Nuneaton and Bedworth \| Oswestry \| Redditch \| Rugby \| Sandwell \| Shrewsbury and Atcham \| Solihull \| South Shropshire \| South Staffordshire \| Stafford \| Staffordshire Moorlands \| Stoke-on-Trent \| Stratford-on-Avon \| Tamworth \| Telford and Wrekin \| Warwick \| Walsall \| Wolverhampton \| Worcester \| Wychavon \| Wyre Forest
Administrative Counties with multiple districts: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire